Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.
Herd pressure is to be judged by two things: first, its intensity, and second, its direction.
How about Pithecanthropus Erectus? Was it really he who ate the apple? Or was it Homo Pekiniensis?
I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose.
I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds.
I suggest to young professors that their first work should be written in a jargon only to be understood by the erudite few. With that behind them, they can ever after say what they have to say in a language ‘understand of the people.’
In mass cruelty, the expulsions of Germans ordered by the Russians fall not very far short of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis.
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.
Look at me. Look at me is one of the fundamental desires of human heart.
Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens.
Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake.
Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words.
Most people believe in God because they have been taught from early infancy to do it, and that is the main reason. Then I think that the next most powerful reason is the wish for safety.
Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point.
No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid.
One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun’s breasts, provided he does it without evil intent.
People who are vigorous and brutal often find war enjoyable.
The teaching of Christ, as it appears in the Gospels, has had extraordinarily little to do with the ethics of Christians.
The white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them.
There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man’s inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which have been due to men’s hostility to their fellow men.